Features Australia
On trade, Trump is the new Menzies
Our federal election is over but the US-China trade war rolls on. Overnight Donald Trump offered some free advice to…
Cane toads squashed by the bedwetters
I finally sat down and had a look at the new Scott Morrison cabinet. Wow! If you imagine a spectrum…
Climate Council crestfallen
Australia’s media will shortly run the following ‘climate crisis’ stories: London’s black cabs are going electric; UK offshore turbines are…
Albo – more of the same
Greeted by the naive as a breath of fresh air, the only significant difference Anthony Albanese has demonstrated from his…
Undie-cover agents
Last week, with all the stealth of the pirates of Penzance, Australia’s Federal Police, raided not one but two major…
It’s China, not climate
Despite constant doom-saying over climate and commentators wringing their hands over floods in Queensland and droughts in NSW and Victoria,…
Tory turmoil
Since the advent of cable news and the internet most politically-interested Aussies now follow US politics more than UK politics.…
Boris or oblivion
They recently released a poll over here in Britain. Only women were polled and they were asked ‘Would you sleep…
Libs must now lead
The euphoria is understandable. After trailing Labor in the polls throughout the last parliament, the Liberals can be forgiven a…
Press and government at war. Thank heavens
The suggestion that Australia may well be the world’s most secretive democracy is even more ludicrous when we consider its…
They’re a weird religious mob
‘I cannot believe in this election that there is a discussion even under way that gay people will go to…
The Donald next door
From tomorrow, and for a few days thereafter, my wife and I will have a new neighbour here in London. …
Race has no place
All Australians are equal. Our legal status should not be determined by our skin colour or our race. This clear…
The Greening and Fall of European Civilisation
The European Parliament election results are in, and the Guardian has proclaimed a ‘green wave’. Winning roughly 9 per cent…
Fact-checker? What about a bias-checker?
ABC chair Ita Buttrose has got interested in the bias issue. Melbourne ABC 774 Drive host Rafael Epstein fished last…
Business/Robbery etc
Forget any post-election hubris. This may turn out to have been an election worth losing. And that is quite apart…
Adani – a cautionary tale
On May 24, through gritted teeth, the ABC reported, ‘Adani’s final environmental hurdles set to be finalised within three weeks,…
Treading the boards with Bin Laden
The Seymour recently completed a season of a play with the intriguing title Osama bin Laden. The banner read: ‘My…
The science is settled
The science is settled. Not in relation to the increasingly discredited theory that man-made global warming is having a signal…
GetUp!’s road to nowhere
Australia owes a debt of gratitude to GetUp!, the George Soros funded outfit with an almost missionary zeal against conservatism.…
Pride and priorities
Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, used to be thought of as the King’s Cross of Melbourne. It was the heart of…
The public humiliation diet
Last month, the UK’s version of Jerry Springer, The Jeremy Kyle Show, was cancelled after a guest suicided post-recording. Steve…
May finally exits, stage left
I have been on sabbatical now, living in London, since the beginning of this year. During that whole time I…
Emissions Notes
We’ll never leave Paris
The climate conundrum
All political philosophies are rational according to their own logic. Even reprehensible and morally repugnant ideologies can appear logical if…
